Looking over my student feedback for this last semester, one thing I find a touch odd are student requests for more text-oriented powerpoints (e..g powerpoints 'with notes'). Which I find odd because this is exactly what I was taught *not* to put on a teaching powerpoint.
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Perhaps this is me getting old but that was how all of the best lecturers I studied under used visual aids. Those best teachers never put the 'notes' on the powerpoint - the notes were the lecture. You stress key points by repeating them, by drawing attention to them.
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(And I am willing to be powerfully silly to draw attention to key points. I will repeat them slowly, I will literally pound the table, pump my first, jump up and down, whatever. I regularly have the class chant key points back to me. I am not afraid to look silly.)
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The only time I saw the notes on the PPT was exactly when I used them: beginner teachers who were less experienced and less confident. For me it was a crutch I had to learn to lose. I rather assumed that kind of presentation was something you learned out of, and so I did.
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I suppose I find it a touch troubling that there is clearly a subset (relatively small, but noticeable) of students who report struggling with a lecture where the main points are not physically written on the powerpoints in full for them to copy down.
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I know I set up classes that way when I was starting out, because it was easy and I didn't know what I was doing. I also know that my teaching mentors pushed me to get away from that approach because it doesn't actually teach students to really absorb the information.
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They just copy it down, which isn't the same. I worry students are getting used to an approach where they ignore the spoken words and write down the powerpoints which will equip them poorly for a world where key information is delivered in dialogue that they need to process.
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Anyway - other teacher-friends, have you encountered this sort of request too? What is your approach for the amount of text on powerpoints and what text you put there?
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